About The Author

Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.

I think it’s the fact that he’s alienating older voters by scaring them to death with his constant pushing to restart the election in a way that everyone knows isn’t safe. He may lose a share of his support among his most reliable voters. It wouldn’t necessarily take much, particularly since these are people who won’t stay home. They’ll show up and pull the lever for Biden.

Yes, this. To be blunt, the number of deaths is too small to have a significant effect on an electorate of 135 million (in 2016) voters. What’s not too small to have an effect is the overall demographic shift of the past four years, with roughly 12 million (disproportionately older, whiter, wealthier, more conservative) people dying and roughly 16 million (disproportionately younger, browner, poorer, more liberal) people becoming eligible to vote. All things being equal, changes in the electorate of that magnitude do make it harder for Trump to win this year. Of course, all things are *never* equal: Trump… Read more »

Quackery. Nicole Wallace noted Trump has now called his latest expertise about using disinfectants and light merely sarcasm. Problem is it took him over twelve hours to say anything. Well, he is a very stable genius so he likely meant every word of it. Tide pods may be better than Lysol though, I suspect. Dumb ass.